The World Bank pioneered global HIV and AIDS financing early in the emergency and remains committed to achieving Millennium Development Goal 6, to halt by 2015 and begin to reverse the spread of HIV and AIDS, through prevention, care, treatment, and mitigation services for those affected by HIV and AIDS.
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The development objectives of the
MultiSectoral STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention Project (MSPP) is to
support the efforts of the government of Madagascar to
promote the multi-sectoral... Show More + response to the HIV/AIDS crisis
and contain the spread of HIV/AIDS in the country. The
project has four components. The first finances the
devleopment of sector strategies and operational plans for
eight key sectors: education; health; information, culture
and communication; labor; population; rural development; and
security. The component finances workshops, focus group
discussions, pilot projects, and provdes an unallocated
amount to finance scaling up activities in the sector action
plans. The second component creates a mechanism--a Fund--to
provide financial incentives to correct market
inefficiencies in the demand for, and provision, of
prevention activities. Specifically, the Fund finances peer
group discussions, counseling, social marketing of condoms
and STI kits, operational costs, and strengthening the
capacity of implementing entities. The third component
monitors project progress, evaluates the impact of project
activities, and supports thes studies undertaken in
component 1. The fourth component finances the project
implementation unit's (UGP) personnel, equipment,
operational costs, and periodic technical assistance. Show Less -